Is the failure of democratic leaders to effectively champion democratic values and rights a factor in enabling the rise of autocrats? Autocratic leaders faced significant backlash in 2021, but democracy… Read more »
Latin American democracy is more resilient than appearances may suggest, according to a new report. Opinion polls show that only around a fifth to a quarter of Latin Americans might… Read more »
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s authoritarian populism has lost its magic, notes Soner Cagaptay, a Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the author of A Sultan… Read more »
….. are identified and analyzed in the most-read essays from the Journal of Democracy, reminding us that 2021 was what JOD calls a year marked by high political drama, economic… Read more »
Russian lawmakers want to declare the fall of the Soviet Union three decades ago “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.” The proposal submitted Monday by the right-wing nationalist Liberal Democratic… Read more »
The sprawl of contemporary liberal values—from LGBTQ rights to gender equality to the rights of migrants—invites pushback in both democratic and nondemocratic states. It provides illiberal politicians with opportunities to… Read more »
One reason many countries were willing to embrace democratic models was the success of the US and other Western nations in the 20th century. But if democracy no longer looks… Read more »
Poland and Hungary have used the largesse of the European Union to undermine democracy and the rule of law, according to a new Bloomberg analysis: The awkward truth is that… Read more »
How long does it take an authoritarian populist to dismantle the institutions of a liberal democracy so completely that they become no longer salvageable? @JeremyCliffe asks in @NewStatesman https://t.co/c4QjhXLYxE —… Read more »
Open economies and open societies have delivered tremendous human progress, yet in recent years have not fully lived up to expectations, notes Kim Eric Bettcher, head of Policy and Program… Read more »